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Original filePortrait of a Young Man
About This Work
oil on poplar panel painted surface: 30 x 23 cm (11 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.) original panel: 30.9 x 24.8 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.) overall (with wood strips added in 1944): 32.9 x 27.1 cm (12 15/16 x 10 11/16 in.) framed: 55.56 x 53.98 x 6.19 cm (21 7/8 x 21 1/4 x 2 7/16 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection Provenance: Probably purchased 1816/1823 in Italy by Barthold Georg Niebuhr [1776-1831], Bonn;[1] by inheritance to Marcus Niebuhr, London; probably by inheritance to Mrs. J.M. Tod, London; sold 17 February 1931 to (J. Leger and Son, London).[2] Frank Oldham, London; (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 May 1935, no. 103); C. Huggins.[3] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold July 1935 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] According to the catalogue of the May 19
Provenance & Source
Object
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
oil on poplar panel
painted surface: 30 x 23 cm (11 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.) original panel: 30.9 x 24.8 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.) overall (with wood strips added in 1944): 32.9 x 27.1 cm (12 15/16 x 10 11/16 in.) framed: 55.56 x 53.98 x 6.19 cm (21 7/8 x 21 1/4 x 2 7/16 in.)